It's true: northern hipsters have started a pro-littering campaign. Ashbery is a living contemporary writer! Apparently it's a staple at Midwestern potlucks; it belongs there right alongside the tater tot hotdish. I don't know the context, but doesn't this violate the basic rule of logic that for any given property A, a thing cannot be both A and not A? The "neg" is overrated, and arguably can't even be classed as flirtation. This will henceforth serve as my go-to example of a bad poem.

A-not-A--trip back to highschool and, I think, a history teacher briefly mentioning Derrida; or maybe it was an English teacher; or no must have been both.

Grachies remindsme of grouches too; but yah LD I agree with your reading.

Biased thought: is it just me or is eastcoast slang inferior to elsewhere? I'm really not well-versed enough to make this claim. And besides: the best is Elizabethan. Which is not an endorsement of mysogyny except, agh, with hell and nothing that's sorta bs of me. If I appear the wretch, please get rid of this.

I think of light-being-wave-and-particle as analogous to person-being-banker-and-douchebag. The notions are different but they're not mutually exclusive. For instance a soliton is intuitively both a wave (being a wave) and a particle (being a rigid clump-like thing).

Hi, Elisa. Sounded like Whimsy on a riff :) I like to think that A-Not-A is sometimes a matter of the phenomenon in question not resolving itself yet. Like "am I really in love?" or some other quantum consideration. I am always a little surprised to remember that all those states to the east and north mainly are The Midwest. Even Wisconsin. of course, they DO all have potlucks, and would make perfectly cast characters on A Prairie Home Companion.